Obviously, when you like a person or a character, you approach them very differently as opposed someone you feel only animosity towards.
Do you know--I hated Snape. I mean, when I came into fandom after GoF I saw Snape's fun fannish potential, but in all the books preceding, and then in OotP (even after I was in fandom and enjoying "Detention, Potter," smutfics like mad), I did feel animosity towards him. Really hated him for his cruelty and nastiness! And then at the conclusion of HBP, it was shocking--I gasped, "All this time I thought Snape was a nasty man who had his own agenda--now it turns out he's the second hero of the books!" So I was not looking at him as someone I liked when I read HBP--HBP is what turned me around to admiring the hell out of Snape.
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Date: 2007-07-06 10:36 pm (UTC)Do you know--I hated Snape. I mean, when I came into fandom after GoF I saw Snape's fun fannish potential, but in all the books preceding, and then in OotP (even after I was in fandom and enjoying "Detention, Potter," smutfics like mad), I did feel animosity towards him. Really hated him for his cruelty and nastiness! And then at the conclusion of HBP, it was shocking--I gasped, "All this time I thought Snape was a nasty man who had his own agenda--now it turns out he's the second hero of the books!" So I was not looking at him as someone I liked when I read HBP--HBP is what turned me around to admiring the hell out of Snape.